A remake of the 1994 film The Crow has been in discussions for years. Mark Wahlberg was at one point going to star, Stephen Norrington was set to direct but, like many projects in Hollywood, it all just sort of went away….until last week. Last week Relativity Media signed 28 Weeks Later director Juan Carlos Fresnadillo to direct a remake of the film, based on the comic by James O’Barr. Next on their list is nabbing a star and Fresnadillo is reportedly talking to Bradley Cooper, who can currently be seen in another Relativity hit film Limitless, to play the lead role of a rock star who is killed trying to save his girlfriend but comes back to life with superpowers. Read more after the jump. Read More »
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Previous rumors (from February 2011) have been confirmed: 28 Weeks Later helmer Juan Carlos Fresnadillo is now set to direct The Crow reboot. Fresnadillo was once announced as the director of the Gore Verbinski-produced big screen adaptation of the popular video game series Bioshock, and just got finished directing Clive Owen in the horror/thriller Intruders.
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Briefly: As remakes flourish in every corner of the film business, one can’t quite take to the air. The new version of The Crow has been in the works for some time now, once with Stephen Norrington in the director’s chair and Nick Cave rewriting the director’s script. Mark Wahlberg was attached for a moment, but all of these people walked away before the end of 2010, reportedly because a new actor came on board and wanted a new writer to make big changes to the script.
Since then we’ve heard vague rumors about different possible directors. The last was that Juan Carlos Fresnadillo (28 Weeks Later) would direct, but now another report says the job might go to F. Javier Gutiérrez. Fangoria says the Before the Fall director might have the gig, but frankly I wouldn’t put too much weight behind either of these rumors without further word. No confirmation from Relativity yet, but I’m expecting them to come back with a noncommittal statement at best. Treat this one as unconfirmed rumor for now.
This might be the time to wonder what the odds are of actually seeing the reboot of The Crow on which we’ve reported over the past year and change. Stephen Norrington was attached to direct for some time, and he’d written a script that, with polish work done by Nick Cave, was generating interest. An offer reportedly went out to Mark Wahlberg to star. But an unnamed actor became involved, who, according to Mr. Norrington, requested a new script from a new writer. So Stephen Norrington left, and now Mark Wahlberg confirms that he is no longer involved in any capactity. Details on that, and the actor’s spot-on take on M. Night Shyamalan’s The Happening, after the break. Read More »
There’s more news on the remake of The Crow. Earlier this week we heard that the lead role had been offered to Mark Wahlberg. Now there’s word, straight from the filmmaker, that director Stephen Norrington has moved on. Details on the reason for his departure are after the jump. Read More »
Bloody Disgusting is reporting that Mark Wahlberg has been offered the lead role in Relativity Media’s remake of The Crow. Nothing is official just yet, but what do you think of this casting choice?
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I don’t know if there’s any real way to parse the information that Nick Cave is rewriting the remake of The Crow. Yeah, that Nick Cave: the singer who wrote The Proposition and the famously rejected draft of a sequel to Gladiator. Reaction I had was simply, “what?!” which might be all you can really say. Read More »
In late 2008 Stephen Norrington signed on to write and direct a new version of The Crow, based (to some extent) on James O’Barr‘s graphic novel and comics about a dead rocker whose spirit returns to seek vengeance on the men who killed him and raped his girlfriend. The 1994 film version directed by Alex Proyas gained instant notoriety when actor Brandon Lee was killed on set, and the film struck a chord with audiences. Naturally, sequels (three so far) aren’t enough, so it’s reboot time.
For the last year the news on the Norrington film has basically been that it is not a remake, that this will be a more gritty take that feels different. Now producer Edward R. Pressman says that Norrington’s script is finished (even though we’d heard that last October) and casting announcements are forthcoming. Read More »
